Trial Recommendations
While you may want to roll out GFI Archiver across your entire email infrastructure from the start of the Trial, we recommend that you first become familiar with the product, its storage capacity requirements and hardware suitable for your email flow and email retention policies.
Follow the guidelines below to help ensure your trial is successful:
| RECOMMENDATION | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| Testing users |
Start by rolling out GFI Archiver to a select number of users. GFI Archiver supports Active DirectoryA technology that provides a variety of network services, including LDAP-like directory services. so you can add entire groups as easily as individuals. GFI Archiver is completely transparent to users so there will be no business disruption. GFI Archiver uses email journaling to retrieve emails from Microsoft Exchange. This requires minimal changes to your environment and presents no risk to your email infrastructure. |
| Virtual machines |
GFI Archiver works very well in a virtual machine environment with suitable resources. There is no need to install your GFI Archiver trial on the Microsoft SBS or Exchange server. Installing GFI Archiver in a virtual machine is a quick route to evaluating the product. |
| Know your mail flow | You will need to assign suitable hardware and storage resources to ensure that GFI Archiver can handle your company’s mail flow (the volume of emails you send and receive) |
GFI Archiver has been designed to be as non-invasive as possible and requires minimal changes to your existing email infrastructure; making it both easy to evaluate and easy to remove when you have completed your trial.